An Afternoon of Poetry

Driftnet Poets of Grimsby will be joined by Paul Sutherland and Afifa Ematullah to read a selection of poems including a first performance of April Renga

Driftnet Poets is a long established poetry group in Grimsby with at least two anthologies published as being involved in a wide range literary projects. Driftnet frequently performs at festivals in N.E. Lincolnshire including events organised at Arts Forum and Lit Com festivals.

Paul Sutherland is a British Canadian Poet, who has
read his poems in public over 150 times and has seven
collections published. He turned freelance in 2004.
His most recent, Spires and Minarets, has been praised
as a book in which 'Immediate and sensitive observation of landscape, its wildlife and small objects discovered in it are starting points for lyrical writing and impassioned meditation on central subjects'.

Afifa Ematullah is a Sufi poet and artist who has read
her poems widely in the UK, Canada and the US. Her book
Return 'takes the reader on a journey which leaves the reader by the end breathless and illuminated'.

April Renga is a collaborative piece of work - a sequence of 36 miniature poems - written by Driftnet poets and Paul Sutherland over three years. The collaboration resulted in the publication of April Renga by Wellhouse Publications.

Entry: Free

Time: 2:00pm